PRODUCT LEAD

Meroka

$90K — $120K *
Real Estate & Construction
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of product management experience with an entrepreneurial mindset
  • Experience building a product from the ground up
  • Strong design sensibility and user experience focus
  • Ability to create and manage a product roadmap in ambiguous environments
  • Comfortable working directly with users in the field

Responsibilities

  • Own product vision and develop a user-friendly roadmap
  • Prioritize craft and design by making critical build and cut decisions
  • Engage directly with customers in field operations to inform product development
  • Work collaboratively with engineering and operations to execute plans
  • Establish best practices for product development and build a team as the product scales

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model allowing flexibility between home and office
  • Competitive salary with meaningful equity
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Opportunity for high ownership in product development
  • Chance to shape both the product and the role itself
Full Job Description
Location: Hybrid, Montreal

Type: Full-time, permanent role. Competitive salary plus meaningful equity and benefits.

About the Role

The product is at its earliest stage, and we mean that as a selling point. We're not looking for a traditional product manager to tend a backlog - we're looking for an entrepreneur who will dive into this product and obsess over it like it's their own company. Someone with real taste and a keen eye for design, the structure to build and hold a roadmap, and the creative, entrepreneurial instinct to invent what doesn't exist yet.

This is a high-ownership, founding-in-nature seat. You'll shape what the product becomes and, to a large degree, what this role becomes. What makes it rare is where you get to build: not toward a demo, but into real field operations for businesses we own. You'll spend as much time with field workers and customers as you do at a whiteboard, and the loop between the two is where the best product decisions will come from.

This Is Not For You If...

  • You need a fully scoped backlog before you can move, rather than building the roadmap as you go.
  • You'd rather perfect a product from behind a desk than get on-site and watch real people use it.
  • "Product manager" to you means running process, not inventing the thing itself.
  • You want the safety of something already built rather than the blank page.

What You'll Do

  • Own the product vision and roadmap from a near-blank page - turn the messy reality of field operations into something people genuinely want to use.
  • Obsess over craft and design: make the calls on what to build, what to cut, and what "good" actually looks like.
  • Get into the field with our customers and their crews, and turn what you learn on-site into product.
  • Move fast against a deliberate plan, partnering closely with engineering, operations, and leadership.
  • Set the bar for how product gets done here, and build the team beneath you as we grow.

Who You Are

  • You've built something of your own - a company, a product, a venture - and you think like a founder, not a ticket-taker.
  • Real design taste and instinct for the user, paired with the structure to bring order to ambiguity and keep a roadmap honest.
  • Comfortable at every altitude: high-level strategy one hour, pixel- and workflow-level detail the next.
  • You'd rather be close to real users in the real world than behind a desk theorizing about them.

Nice to Haves

  • Exposure to the physical or built world - construction, trades, field services, logistics.
  • A track record taking a product from zero to its first real users.
  • Enough design or technical fluency to prototype, or at least speak fluently to those who do.

How to Apply

  • Please send us either a short Loom video (preferred), your CV or a brief summary of your experience. Our Chief of Staff, Alexandra Kiekens, will reach out to you via LinkedIn to schedule a short 10-minute introductory phone call as the first step of the interview process.

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